Date of Award
Spring 5-21-2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Art
First Advisor
Daniel Bozhkov
Second Advisor
Drew Beattie
Academic Program Adviser
Joel Carreiro
Abstract
I make visceral images that are simultaneously elusive and confrontational. They are in dialogue with the historical tradition of figurative painting and drawing, but also aim to subvert those conventions. I want to catch and retain, as long as possible, the attention of my viewer by creating a familiar space that is slowly undermined. In my works the human body is dispersed in space; plants and tree parts are stand-ins for human desires, and gender is assigned to fragments of the body and to objects, then withdrawn.
Recommended Citation
Burke, Lindsay M., "Light and Space" (2017). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/206